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1. Danine Spencer » Human Trafficking in Minnesota (and Your State, Too) on 14 Dec 2009 at 5:17 pm

   [...] was reading the Racialicious blog this weekend when I came across a link to an article that shocked the $!&*($#@%! out of me: [...]

2. Does Feminist = Pro Sex Work ? « .Elise.Anne. on 18 Dec 2009 at 2:56 pm

   [...] the work? I’m figuring out that there are definitely different camps on this issue. Racialicious linked to an article about the prevalence of Native American women in MN who are forced into [...]

3. Does Feminism = Pro Sex Worker? « .Elise.Anne. on 18 Dec 2009 at 5:50 pm

   [...] figuring out that there are definitely different camps on this issue. Racialicious linked to an article about the prevalence of Native American women in MN who are forced into [...]

4. Report on Sex Trafficking of Indian Women and Girls in Minnesota « Turtle Talk on 23 Dec 2009 at 11:56 am

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5. Does anyone EVER read this stuff? « Feminist Whore on 26 Dec 2009 at 5:14 am

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Comments

1. Zahra wrote:

   Vednita Carter is awesome. So glad to see her get a shout-out.

   Too often women of color working against prostitution are shut out of the contentious conversations about sex work/prostitution, which often revolve around the concerns of white and/or well-educated women working in the very upper tiers of the industry.

   That article was disturbing, but the dynamics it describes–especially parents prostituting children before the age of 13–are problems in many economically depressed communities.

   Posted 08 Dec 2009 at 12:57 pm ¶

2. Adrienne wrote:

   Heartbreaking and disturbing article about Native American women and girls in Minnesota being high risk for being prostituted and facing sexual assault.

   Zahra, you make an excellent point.

   Posted 08 Dec 2009 at 5:20 pm ¶

3. Zahra wrote:

   Thank you. It’s a point that needs to be made, and made again, and made again, until these conversations are structured differently.

   I thought the article did a fairly good job of keeping the perspectives of women of color directly affected by prostitution front and center; I also like the fact that they clearly tied it into white imperialism, and didn’t erase the role of men, especially johns, in the system. But that bit about what white men did to Native women’s genitals is going to give me nightmares.

   Posted 08 Dec 2009 at 7:04 pm ¶

4. Danny wrote:

   The article about the Native women’s conditions, those are major human rights issues we need to tackle in the States.

   The past was very violent but I remember only a few years back hearing conversations from guys (non-visible minorities, white if you all prefer but I rather not demonize all of them) who made comments about Natives that didn’t sound good, almost like they’re a different species.

   This wasn’t in Minnesota but after a while you kind of get that uncomfortable subtle feelings among individual’s attitudes throughout the country toward this demographic group.

   People(s) who deserves more attention and realistic support. Also a change in attitude among their own groups of course, as the rest of us POC and non-POC have to deal with as well.

   Posted 09 Dec 2009 at 4:57 am ¶

5. Digital Coyote wrote:

   I’ve come to the conclusion that both stories tagged “Native American” are ugly and are so for the same reason: human nature.

   The first recognizes that the trafficking is able to occur because one group is completely ignoring the existence of the one it has othered. Many comments on the second one, however, show that some people are just fine doing the same in the “defense” of culture, identity, or somehow ensuring that benefits aren’t “stolen” from them.

   Posted 09 Dec 2009 at 6:22 pm ¶

6. Jilla wrote:

   Vednita Carter is wrong. White, blonde, green-eyed and blue eyed women are trafficked too. We just call it “choice” when it happens to them. By doing so, we abanon them, or have shades of blame for them, as seems to be the case with Mme Carter.

   When are we just going to say, flat out, women are trafficked here in America, and their colour doesn’t protect them at all. Born here women, not just women trafficked into here.

   As for native women; they have always been trafficked. First by their fathers, uncles and brothers during the fur trade era.

   Posted 23 Dec 2009 at 1:49 pm ¶